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Culbreth added: “I just feel like as Republicans we recycle guys too much. Newt’s been around, Gov. Barbour’s been around. And they do a good job and I like them all, but I don’t know if they can beat Obama.”

As Barry Wynn, a former state GOP chair who was in Spartanburg Saturday, put it: “You always want somebody who’s not out there.”

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is the grass-is-greener candidate of the moment, said Wynn.

Two other delegates at the Spartanburg convention were bemoaning their options immediately after hearing from Barbour, Santorum and Newt Gingrich.

“None of them excited me – there’s nothing in any of them I can grab onto about leading,” complained Alice Lang. “We are the leader of the free world and I need someone who’s going to say this is what we’re going to do and lead.”

William Lindsey chimed in to declare: “I don’t think the presidential candidate for the Republican Party has stepped forward yet.”

“Right, this is just the preview,” added Lang. “We need someone who is charismatic and conservative at the same time.”

Lindsey said he liked Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and West (R-Fla.), the freshman congressman and tea party favorite.

Of course none of the candidates or names generating interest at the moment may be available as options by the time the South Carolina primary comes around, leaving activists to pick among more conventional options.

“You’ve got to remember, we’re after Iowa and New Hampshire,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). “So if you’re not in the top three or four in Iowa there is no reason to go to New Hampshire and if you’re not in the top two or three in New Hampshire there is no reason to go to South Carolina.”

Graham noted that his state “has a history of electability being married up with conservatism.”

“We don’t go for the most soothing rhetoric,” he said. “Generally the people who win our primary have an electability factor – I think that will be true again.”

But even Graham said he wanted more candidates to get in the field.

“Bigger is better,” he said, noting that Christie, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels could have an impact if they ran.

It can’t happen soon enough for Republicans starting to fret about who can take on Obama.

“Unfortunately, it’s very silent which is problematic for our side,” said GOP freshman Rep. Tim Scott, who represents much of the state’s coast, of the presidential doings. “We need to have some folks teed up, in the race, running trying to define themselves and to create a path toward the victory that we need in 2012. And I’m not seeing a lot of movement yet.”

"It’s still the Bible Belt—and Romney’s Mormonism will spook some evangelical voters."

Almost everyone who knows anything about the Mormon religion knows they have a prophet. What many don’t know, is anything that the prophet says in official capacity is considered official canon.

The Book of Mormon is a book of LDS scripture that takes place during the same time as the Bible and takes place on the American continent. It follows the stories of two tribes who descended from the family of Lehi. After Jesus’ resurrection LDS people believe he visited the peoples of the Americas.

While most religions believe in God, the LDS religion believes in God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit as separate beings. They also believe that God, Jesus and resurrected beings have bodies of “flesh and bone.”

In LDS doctrine there are three heavens: the Celestial Kingdom, Terrestrial Kingdom, and Telestial Kingdom. The Celestial is the highest, where God and the ones who followed his law reside. The Terrestrial is the middle, where people who followed the Law of Moses reside. The Telestial is the lowest, where the ones who followed carnal law reside.

Mormons believe that God created multiple worlds and each world has people living on it. They also believe that multiple Gods exist but each has their own universe. We are only subject to our God and if we obtain the highest level of heaven we can become gods ourselves.

Have you ever heard that Mormons baptize dead people? What’s the deal?

"It’s still the Bible Belt—and Romney’s Mormonism will spook some evangelical voters."

Almost everyone who knows anything about the Mormon religion knows they have a prophet. What many don’t know, is anything that the prophet says in official capacity is considered official canon.

The Book of Mormon is a book of LDS scripture that takes place during the same time as the Bible and takes place on the American continent. It follows the stories of two tribes who descended from the family of Lehi. After Jesus’ resurrection LDS people believe he visited the peoples of the Americas.

While most religions believe in God, the LDS religion believes in God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit as separate beings. They also believe that God, Jesus and resurrected beings have bodies of “flesh and bone.”

In LDS doctrine there are three heavens: the Celestial Kingdom, Terrestrial Kingdom, and Telestial Kingdom. The Celestial is the highest, where God and the ones who followed his law reside. The Terrestrial is the middle, where people who followed the Law of Moses reside. The Telestial is the lowest, where the ones who followed carnal law reside.

Mormons believe that God created multiple worlds and each world has people living on it. They also believe that multiple Gods exist but each has their own universe. We are only subject to our God and if we obtain the highest level of heaven we can become gods ourselves.

Have you ever heard that Mormons baptize dead people? What’s the deal?

Mormons believe that God created multiple worlds and each world has people living on it. They also believe that multiple Gods exist but each has their own universe. We are only subject to our God and if we obtain the highest level of heaven we can become gods ourselves.

Have you ever heard that Mormons baptize dead people? What’s the deal?

I really don't care what Mormons believe beyond the fact that I am offended that not long ago they banned black people from their churches. It was based on something in their doctrines just like polygamy is/was. But what is important to me is the POLICIES of the people running for office not their theologies.

There's a war going on within the Republican party, establishment vs. tea party. To the winner will go the future and soul of the GOP. Who the GOP winds up nominating in 2012 will set the direction the party will take.

A big problem for the Republicans is that no one credible wants to run against Obama. Christie is out. Thune is out. All the potentials left are either lunatics or bone crushing bores. Unelectable to a one.

I'm looking forward to the early primary debates. They should be a lot of laughs.

Talk of Trump as a contender really proves how limp the support is for any of the actual Republican candidates. Also shows that at this point it's all about name recognition rather than anyone's record or position on the issues, since Trump has neither. But the really interesting questions is: will the anyone-but-Romney crowd rally around him when he gets the nomination or will they follow Trump outside to a sideshow independent spite campaign?

The dingbat who ran for V.P. in 2008 and then quit her job as governor to spew nonsense . I JUST saw Glenn Beck talking bad about her . She's toast. Michelle bachmann has at least a few more I.Q. points and she doesnt quit her jobs so the GOP really doesn't have much more use for um.............what's her name again ...........??? Oh yeah Palin.

Romneycare is a killer to all repugnicans who want to shove Obamacare down the imposter's throat,. The talibangelicals hate Romney's Mormonism more than they hate Islamo-Fascists. They do not believe in Art VI of the Constitution.

....no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.